Search for
the LORD and His strength; continually seek His face. Psalm 105:4
If all of
our human crucifixions are leading to some possible resurrection, and are not
dead-end tragedies, this changes everything. If God is somehow participating in
our human suffering, instead of just passively tolerating it and observing it,
that also changes everything. –Richard Rohr
Once again the Cry Out newsletter arrived to
my inbox.
At 1:45 am early Monday morning, Iraqi Prime
Minister Haider al-Abadi along with his entourage of advisors and military
colonels announced in a nationally televised address, "The hour has
come and the moment of great victory is near. I announce today the start of the
operation to liberate Mosul."
There are somewhere between 700,000 and 1.5 million people who have been held captive by ISIS's brutal regime for over 2 years in Mosul. This is the largest city that ISIS has controlled and it was the place they declared the Islamic Caliph on July 4, 2014.
There are somewhere between 700,000 and 1.5 million people who have been held captive by ISIS's brutal regime for over 2 years in Mosul. This is the largest city that ISIS has controlled and it was the place they declared the Islamic Caliph on July 4, 2014.
And
I sit quietly before my LORD God. The One Who So Loved the World. Humble and
helpless is okay, because He promises His strength. And somehow a memory
bubbled up on my blog, a true
story of some young Kurds who crossed the desert. And this story ties my
heart up into a knot, bound with their pain.
In
this way, I can be like Jesus. I can have His heart, His heart flaming with
divine love, tender and broken.
May
it be so.
Lord God, we come before you and ask you to
turn our hearts and minds to you alone, to you who have power over the whole
world and who can do everything in our hearts according to Your will. Let there
be light in our time. Hear and answer the many prayers that have already come
to you, rising for centuries before your throne, prayers for Your kingdom and
for Your will on earth. This earth has become the prey of evil. We are poor and
needy, and You alone can help us. Help us, O Lord, our God and Father. After
this misery let Your day come, Your great day over all the world and over all
peoples. Amen.
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